SNF will have 360-degree red zone views for Cowboys home games

When NBC broadcasts a pair of Cowboys games on Sunday Night Football this season, fans at the game and watching from home will enjoy a new wrinkle.

Via the Associated Press, NBC will install a system that permits 360-degree rotating angles of all action in the red zone and through the back of each end zone.

“You can now move all the way around the play without changing the camera angle,” Sunday Night Football producer Fred Gaudelli told the Television Critics Association over the weekend. Gaudelli, pictured to the left of NBC Sports Group Chairman Mark Lazarus (yes, I know how to suck up), compared it to the camera views available in video games.

The FreeD system, short for free-dimensional video, will be used on Sunday, September 8 when the Cowboys host the Giants. It also will be used for the Redskins-Cowboys game on October 13, and for the October 5 Arizona State-Notre Dame game to be played at AT&T Stadium.

The system also will be used for in-stadium replays during all of the team’s 2013 home games.

Because installation takes a full month, NBC selected a venue that would be used multiple times this season. Given the manner in which the NFC East has played out the last two years, there’s a chance that yet another Cowboys home game will end up on NBC, via flex scheduling.

Only the best for Dallas. We are the #1 in raking in money. We have to pony up for the rest of the sorry teams that cant hold their own and we still get hated on. Lol!!! Go Cowboys!!

mrlaloosh says:Jul 29, 2013 4:42 PM

I still say the view from my LazyBoy with my craft brews and in my unmentionables looking at my 60″ LED HD is much better. Certainly a heck of a lot cheaper. Sadly, get ready for PPV with the NFL. It’s coming. Just as soon as the NFL has exhausted all the public money it can squeeze from the taxpayers. Sad,really.

noring4youstill says:Jul 29, 2013 4:46 PM

You’ll get up close and personal views of Romo’s picks for scores and cowboys not getting in the endzone. Should be exciting

360 degrees view to distract the viewers from the actual ineptitude and total garbage of the weekly Cowgurls product…..

bordner says:Jul 29, 2013 4:51 PM

mrlaloosh says:
Jul 29, 2013 4:42 PM

I still say the view from my LazyBoy with my craft brews and in my unmentionables looking at my 60″ LED HD is much better. Certainly a heck of a lot cheaper. Sadly, get ready for PPV with the NFL. It’s coming.
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I’ll gladly take PPV to see my favorite team at my out-of-market home! I only have a 55″ LED HDTV, but I’d rather watch the game on that vs. having to go to the local sports bar and watch the game without sound because the local team is playing at the same time. And they are currently both preferable to having to ditch my cable, get DirecTV and sign up for the ticket.

Bring on PPV! Nothing sad about that to me!

zillabeast says:Jul 29, 2013 5:04 PM

Didn’t CBS do this with the Giants-Ravens Super Bowl 12 years ago? Why didn’t the technology take off back then? I can remember it coming in handy for a couple of endzone replays.

I still say the view from my LazyBoy with my craft brews and in my unmentionables looking at my 60″ LED HD is much better. Certainly a heck of a lot cheaper. Sadly, get ready for PPV with the NFL. It’s coming.
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I’ll gladly take PPV to see my favorite team at my out-of-market home! I only have a 55″ LED HDTV, but I’d rather watch the game on that vs. having to go to the local sports bar and watch the game without sound because the local team is playing at the same time. And they are currently both preferable to having to ditch my cable, get DirecTV and sign up for the ticket.

Bring on PPV! Nothing sad about that to me!
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mrlaloosh

I am sure you are ready to pay an average of $80 bucks per game on PPV, have fun buddy. How do I know that, got a friend who works for this PPV scammed TV, for years, and that is how they work the system, the more subscribers the more cost to the viewers…….

The Star is the big money maker in the NFL and up there in the county. U haters hating but fail to see that Dallas can’t keep all that money and have to pony up the nfl teams who lack Jerry Jones business brilliance. Pray the salary cap is in! Dallas needs to be expose like this more so we can keep raking in money to support your crappy team.

profish13 says:Jul 29, 2013 7:13 PM

jerrysglassescleaner says: Jul 29, 2013 6:08 PM

The Star is the big money maker in the NFL and up there in the county. U haters hating but fail to see that Dallas can’t keep all that money and have to pony up the nfl teams who lack Jerry Jones business brilliance. Pray the salary cap is in! Dallas needs to be expose like this more so we can keep raking in money to support your crappy team.

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Yea Im sure the Giants have trouble making money and need Jerry Jones to stay afloat. Not like New York is a big market or anything.